On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 12:43 AM, Bernie Innocenti <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Sat, 2011-06-04 at 23:45 -0400, C. Scott Ananian wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 11:07 PM, Bernie Innocenti > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > A replacement for Scratch written in JavaScript / > > ActionScript: > > > > > http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/evhan55/designblocks-visual-programming-for-artists > > > > Looks promising, and the author is in Cambridge MA, where I > > live. Does > > anyone know her? > > > > > > No, but she's a former member of the Scratch team at the Media Lab. > > "JavaScript" is a bit misleading; her software is written in flash. > > indeed, but the KickStarter entry also reads: > > However, in order for DesignBlocks to become more robust and complete, > it needs more features, plenty of bug fixes and it needs to be ported > to JavaScript/HTML5 (for mobile access). This summer, I'd like to work > on DesignBlocks to get it to a suitable state for widespread testing. > > Doesn't it sound reasonable? I'd like to get in contact with Evelyn > Eastmond to ask how she's planning to make it happen, and if she'd like > to work with the Sugar community to package DesignBlocks as an activity. > > -- > Bernie Innocenti > Sugar Labs Infrastructure Team > http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Infrastructure_Team > > > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > It may be a better investment of our resources to port Processing (which is Java-based) to Sugar. -walter -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org
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